This project aims to reduce Maternal and infant mortality & morbidity, fostering sexual & reproductive health for young girls and women in hard-to-reach or underserved communities in Lagos State, Nigeria, Providing them with Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Services through outreach intervention.
Nigeria has one of the world's highest maternal, infant, and child mortality and morbidity rates. Girls, women, and infants are vulnerable to health crises in urban poor and underdeveloped communities that are marginalized and hard to reach. These communities experience weak access to proper testing, counseling, ultrasound, HIV testing, tetanus immunization, and fetal growth & measurement. The uncertainties that come with the unknown of what is happening to the fetus in the womb are terrifying.
The project helps strengthen access to quality healthcare through maternal & child intervention outreaches: including routine antenatal health checkups & education. It provides women, girls, and babies with the necessary support, information, quality facility, & health visitation. They are enlightened on the importance of taking drugs, preparing for labor signs, & seeking medical facilities for birth also accessing sex education, contraceptive options, & the possible side effects.
Improvements in pregnancy and birth experience, more women will have access to knowledge, healthcare services, and awareness surrounding maternal and infant health: increasing survival rates. Furthermore, family planning services will surge and awareness and knowledge of reproductive health.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
